An Introduction to Tantric Buddhism c7.48

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This doctrine of Vijñānavāda is also found in the *Khasarpaṇa-sādhanam* (p. 89), *Eka-jaṭā-sādhanam* (p. 254) and here and there in some other places also. In the *Ṣaḍakṣarī-lokeśvara-sādhanam* we find that the three elements should be realised as of the form as well as of the nature of magic illusion; all our visual and tactual perceptions are in the dream, as it were. (*Ibid.*, p. 29; also pp. 105, 271). In another place it has been advised to think of the whole world as a magic—as a mirage—as a moon reflected in water. (*Ibid.*, p. 188). All existence is to be thought of as void; for, there cannot be any definition of its nature; and as we cannot find out sufficient reason behind all existence it should be thought of as uncaused; the nature of existence always escapes intellectual comprehension. (*Ibid.*, p. 170).